Tight Nut!

Ok. so my breaks were on thier way out on my rear tyers.
So i went and bought some pads, left wheel off and back on with new pads in 15 minutes. right wheel 4 nuts out. time for the 5th. and after trying for a good few hours we(me and my dad) realized that it looked like it had been welded/glued or something. My best guess is that someone disliked the previous owner and did that. Lucky i found out now rather than if i got a flat.

Any thoughts on how i can go about this?

Thanks Jack
:zlove:

 

If it is glued solvent should help. Just make sure it is not going to damage your tyres.

Edit: Have you tried attaching a long lever to whatever you are using to undo it with? An extra metre and a half leverage can do wonders, might be worth using a 6 sided socket rather than 12 to try to avoid stripping the nut too.

 

Get a piece of steel pipe, slip it over the end of the wheel brace and then stand on the pipe.

 

Put the other wheel nuts back on and do them up tight, then undo the other nut. Use a breaker bar and cheater pipe as IB suggested.

 

What Chrispy said, Then

If it looks like its going to break off. Just snap the bugger off and get another stud

 

ive got tight nuts and im also a stud,any advice for my problem wreccky
oh,and do what the greyham says,thats what i would do as well

 

Thanks

Thanks for all the replies.
Much appreciated.

Will let everyone know how it goes.

 

it might pay too...

go out an buy a 6 point socket and a 600mm breaker bar...and try with this...it no good then put a 3ft bit of tube over the breaker bar...

or you could go to the extreme and drill it off and replace the wheel stud?

 

A couple of years ago on the Patrol the same thing happened to me. I used a pipe on one of those X shaped generic braces. I just twisted the shaft like a cork screw and the nut stayed put.

I took the car back to the tyre place, they put the impact wrench on it and it came straight off.

 

Heres how i did mine



That was trying to get the bottom shock bolt undone, but maybe you could apply the same principle?

 

lol clever mate

 

Cold showers, oh!....and a pair of Boxing Gloves might be of some assistance(or so I am told).:zlove::zlove:

 

not a good idea for the shocks IMO as what happens when you lift the whole car up off the stands.. then it suddenly goes and it comes crashing down as the stand punches a hole in your floor lol

make sure the car is on the ground.. other studs on so the wheel doesnt fall off...

then a big solid breaker bar and jump on it lol..

get your mums little mini tramp thing they have for watchign tv and get a good run up lol

 

and if all ells fails drill it out

 

Currently attempting that now.

 

If all else fails

Try this:- Get along pipe 1 mtr or so, put it over the end of the wheel brace. Put all the other nuts back on, place the wheel brace+pipe on the tight nut so the end of the pipe is against the ground, start the car and just ease it forward or backward to force the pipe even harder against the ground. It needs to be a solid concrete floor, and/or put a piece of steel plate under the end of the pipe. This should either undo the nut or shear the stud off. But I stress this is a LAST resort. And be careful, go very slowly, don't drop the clutch like your at the drags.

 

FINALLY!!!!

So after a about 3 hours of constant trying, the stubbin little thing finally decided to give way. got emo cuts all over my arms from trying for so long.

Thanks heaps everyone for there valued imput.
:zlove:

 

So how long of a bar did you end up using?

 

Just under a meter in length.

Lucky i discovered this place

I would of had to pay for it. pfft.

Thanks again